neighbourhood in Haarlem
Waarderpolder
490 residents · postal code 2031 · Part of Waarder- en Veerpolder, Haarlem
Everything close by, except school and childcare
Almost four in ten homes in Waarderpolder stand empty, against four percent nationally. That is by far the most striking figure here, and it weighs on the wealth & income pillar despite an income spread that deviates little from the national middle. Property values are eighty thousand euros below the median.
The offence figure is more than twice the national middle, and virtually all of it is property crime; burglary actually stays below the median. Violence is above it, so the picture is not purely one of things going missing. With fewer than five hundred residents, every report here is worth two per thousand — reason not to read these figures as a trend.
What you get here is space without quiet. Population density is a hundred and eighty per square kilometre, but greenery within three hundred metres reaches half the national level and noise is seven decibels above it. The railway station is a kilometre and a half away.
- no. 12,565 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 97 of 97 in Haarlem
How Waarderpolder scores
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Is Waarderpolder a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Waarderpolder comes out at 57 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Waarderpolder is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 350 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Wealth & income
What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
Waarderpolder has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 18%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1510%
NL median 14%
- 15–2518%
NL median 11%
- 25–4536%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+10%
NL median 22%
Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.
Average household size
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
35% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
30% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
181 — far less densely populated than average
NL median 2,364
Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.
Frequently asked questions
Is Waarderpolder a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Waarderpolder comes out at 57 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Waarderpolder is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Waarderpolder?
In Waarderpolder the police recorded 350 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (57 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.
How is the grade for Waarderpolder calculated?
Waarderpolder scores 2.8 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Waarderpolder lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Haarlem
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Haarlem.
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